Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts

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Anna Romanowicz Ahana Choudhury

Classed Emotions

Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts

Anna Romanowicz, Ahana Choudhury

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English

Routledge
30 September 2025

Interdisciplinary studies; Urban communities; Politics & government; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Urban Futures

This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural specters of their inhabitants. It highlights the arenas in which various politics and strategies of emotional relations are represented, created, enacted and regulated through the inhabitants’ lives and lifestyles. Exploring this, the chapters in the volume bring together and analyze the myriad forms of intersections within and between urban centers in India and the Indian diaspora, as well as ‘classed’ emotions. The authors embark on scholarly inquiries to highlight the complex and fluid dynamics through which urban spaces and the class of their inhabitants question, attribute, influence and perpetuate the diverse emotional states and responses, and vice versa – they examine the ways in which emotive subjectivities, relations, experiences and practices question and influence multiple urban formations, power dynamics and spaces. They reveal how emotional and urban landscapes are not only represented but are also affected by the social class of the denizens.

Part of the Urban Futures series, the volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of urban studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, urban planning, urban policy, public policy and architecture. It will also be of interest to the professional architects, urban designers, social geographers and policymakers.

Edited by: Anna Romanowicz, Ahana Choudhury
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781041044277
ISBN 10: 1041044275
Series: Urban Futures
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: At the Intersections of Emotions, Social Class and Urbanity 2. Lived Emotions and Class Spaces: Care and ‘Marriages at Old Age’ in Kolkata 3. Living in Dog Years: An Autoethnography of a Multi-species Household 4. Becoming ‘Serious Men’: Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town 5. Care and Class: Exploring Employer-employee Relations in Mothering 6. Class, Religion and Caregiving: Interspecies Emotions and Interactions in a New Delhi Neighbourhood 7. Of Old Bodies and New Homes: Filial Care among Transnational Indian Families 8. Delhi Night by Car: Middle Class, Emotions, and Appropriating Urban Spaces

Anna Romanowicz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Ahana Choudhury is a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, India.